Comey starting in January that he was not personally under investigation ". Comey said he declined to tell agents working on the case about his conversation with Trump to shield them. Reports that Trump was considering firing Mueller surfaced last week, again citing unnamed sources. Recent reports have said Trump also requested help from Coats and Rogers to pressure Comey to end the investigation into Flynn's activities.

The First Minister wrote to Prime Minister Theresa May amid reports she will tie her independence strategy closely to the UK's exit from the EU. In a series of tweets, Ms Sturgeon did not directly deny the story but said much of the speculation about her plans for another referendum was "nonsense".

Second, it suggests that not only is the special counsel's investigation reaching upward in the White House but that is also broadening out from simply an attempt to answer the question of the breadth of Russia's hacking and whether it caught up any Trump officials in it.

Mr Comey told Congress last week that before being sacked, Mr Trump pressured him to drop an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mike Flynn , who was forced to quit for lying about his links to Moscow. Today is Donald Trump's birthday. The special counsel is following two major lines of investigation, said one US official familiar with the rough outlines of Mueller's probe who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The response comes after the Wall Street Journal reported on a May 15th Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request they submitted to the Secret Service. An OANN reporter asked when the president will release the tapes, and Spicer referred to Trump's Friday presser stating that "the president made clear in the Rose Garden last week he'll have an announcement shortly".

Warmbier, 22, a University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati , was medically evacuated to the United States on Wednesday. The New York Times previously cited a senior us official as saying Washington had received intelligence reports Warmbier was repeatedly beaten while held captive in North Korea.

Microsoft dropped the number naming scheme with this fifth iteration, settling on simply " Surface Pro " and the name makes sense. Outside of these changes, the majority of the changes are based on accessibility, with a new hinge with smoother motion and a pen that is now optional and provides 4096 pressure sensitive levels instead of the usual 1024, making drawing that much more realistic and like the real thing, ideal for competing against devices like the iPad Pro.

Meanwhile, the Intelligence Ministry said that the perpetrators of these crimes acted in two coordinated groups, noting that all were Iranians from different regions of the country who had joined the ranks of the Islamic State (EI), also known by its Acronym Arabic Daesh.

Youssef Zaghba is said to have told Italian police "I'm going to be a terrorist" when he was stopped trying to travel to Syria past year. But British police have said Zaghba was "not a police or MI5 subject of interest". The trio killed seven and injured 48 in their rampage around London Bridge and Borough Market on Saturday night. "She had room in her heart for everyone and believed strongly that every person was to be valued and respected", the family said in a statement .

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern and German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel have issued a joint statement voicing strong criticism of the United States plans to impose new sanctions on Russian Federation. Nord Stream 2 is a controversial project to boost Russian gas deliveries to Central and Western Europe. Putin dismissed the proposed sanctions, saying they reflected an internal political struggle in the United States, and that Washington's policy of imposing sanctions on Moscow ...

The official People's Daily newspaper posted video showing more than a dozen people lying motionless in front of the kindergarten's steel sliding gate. "China's small restaurants are landmines, and every mobile street vendor is a moving bomb", one person wrote. Disturbing photos posted to social media showed bodies and debris strewn outside the kindergarten.

The bill, expected within weeks, could top the record abuse penalty of €1bn ($1.45bn), handed out to United States chipmaker Intel in 2009. In July past year, the commission had reiterated its belief that the search giant had "abused its dominant position by systematically favoring its comparison shopping service in its search result pages".

Only three in ten Jewish Israelis think Israel's control of the West Bank amounts to "an occupation", a new poll has shown. Israeli occupation, it said, committed numerous abusive practices on the pretext of security. The West Bank comprises 21 percent of Palestine's historic land area, but after 50 years of occupation, Israel gives Palestinians only 40 percent of the land, planted with settlements, soldiers, and protected streets, making it hard to calculate the area under Palestinian ...

Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey worked closely for years in the George W. Bush administration, when Mueller was FBI director and Comey was deputy attorney general. Gingrich said he is troubled by Democratic donations of Mueller's picks to help lead the probe. Under current Justice Department regulations, firing Mueller would have to be done by deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, not the president- though those regulations could theoretically be set aside.

Several entities that were once targeted by nuclear sanctions are also involved in Iran's non-nuclear "malign" behavior, creating a challenge for lawmakers to delineate and explain their targets. After a warming of ties between the Rouhani government and the Obama administration during the nuclear talks, Tillerson has yet to reach out to his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, he said.

It is possible, however, that the sources for the Post report could have been those interviewed as part of the investigation, not the investigators themselves. Americans are mixed on whether the Justice Department investigation, now led by Robert Mueller , can be fair and impartial. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believes Trump fired him last month because he resisted a request to drop the Russian Federation investigation, especially as it related to former ...

Go to soon, and they risk not having enough buy-in to actually pass something. He supports a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse cases and create a one-year window for past victims to file civil suits. Republicans have effectively capitalized on that action ever since. "It's easier to educate people when you know what you're educating them about".

The shooter was identified by NBC News sources as 66-year-old James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois. The congressional staffer , who works for Rep. Hodgkinson's wife told ABC that he had been living in Alexandria for the past two months. "Real change can only come about through nonviolent action, and anything else runs against our most deeply held American values".

Bernie Sanders , for whom the shooter had campaigned, said he was "sickened" by a crime "against our most deeply held American values". It drew a record attendance of 24,959 attendees. His office has said that he is in "critical" condition, following the shooting. "We're playing the game tomorrow". Underscoring the day's mood, Reverend Patrick Conroy, the House chaplain, opened the day by seeking divine forgiveness "when we seem to forget that words matter and can become seeds that will ...

Later, Sessions directly blasted Comey for his testimony in private last week, "This is a secret innuendo out there being leaked about me - and I don't appreciate it". Attorney General Jeff Sessions did exactly what he needed to do Tuesday - help himself in the eyes of his boss, President Trump; and, in turn, help Trump, NPR reports.

Hodgkinson's neighbors in Belleville said they can't believe someone from their sleepy little town would do something like that. In a post earlier this week, the suspect highlighted a campaign calling for the president's impeachment. "No one is taking responsibility for everything, but violence is going to get us nowhere". According to the Daily Mail , the video by Fox 2 News is from an Occupy event in IL.

That agreement assigns the British government the role of broker between Irish republicans and unionists, a role that Mr Adams said would be compromised if the government was in some way indebted politically to the DUP . Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein said the prospect of a British agreement with the DUP was causing anxiety and fear. As Britain entered a sixth day of political turmoil, May's team continued talks with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) to ...

President Emmanuel Macron's La Republique En Marche (LREM)'s political movement is set to secure a sweeping parliamentary majority after securing 32 percent of the vote in the first round of legislative elections, results show Monday. French president Emmanuel Macron waves during an inauguration ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on May 14, 2017. Mounir Mahjoubi, junior minister in charge of digital affairs, said on BFM television that voters have acknowledged that the ...

But officials told the Post that changed days after Mr Trump fired Mr Comey on May 9. Updated at 1:55 p.m.to include more information from the Post article. Mr Grassley's office said the letter is in response to a recent letter from Mrs Feinstein requesting that the committee seek details from senior Federal Bureau of Investigation leadership about Mr Comey's interactions with President Donald Trump before he was sacked.

However, according to the Washington Post , since Mr Comey's firing, Mr Mueller, the special prosecutor, has started to look at Mr Trump's actions as part of the wider investigation into alleged Russian Federation interference in the 2016 United States presidential election.

Trump did not directly address the allegations he obstructed justice - a potentially impeachable offense - neither did he deny he has entered the miniscule ranks of sitting presidents who have become the subject of a criminal investigation.

But Mr Comey also testified that to his knowledge the president had not tried to stop the Russian Federation investigation. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that he believes Trump fired him last month because he resisted a request to drop the Russian Federation investigation, especially as it related to former national security adviser Michael.

Mrs May told Mr Varadkar that the United Kingdom is committed to a "close and special partnership" post-Brexit and assured him of her commitment to the Good Friday agreement, according to a Downing Street spokesman. Varadkar, Ireland's first Indian-origin premier, on Wednesday officially took over from Enda Kenny as Taoiseach, as the Irish prime ministerial title is known.

Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister said during earlier decades, there was an environment in which sports was not pursued as a career, but now this thinking has began to change. PM Modi also gave confidence to the people that government will try to give all possible facilities to this school so that it can achieve excellence in athletics.

In that time, several of their films have done well enough to warrant not only sequels, but entire series. While not every movie made by Blumhouse is a horror film , that is definitely the genre of choice at the production company. You can check it out in the space above. Co-written and directed by Christopher Landon ( Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones ), the film stars Jessica Rothe ( La La Land ) as a college student who is forced to relive the day of her murder over and over again ...

Economists and politicians in both parties have focused in recent years on promoting apprenticeships and vocational education. Trump was originally expected to unveil his new initiative after a meeting at the Labor Department Wednesday. IBM, for example, participates in a six-year program called P-TECH. Back in 2014, economists Steven Davis and John Haltwanger pointed out how an ever-escalating government regulatory threshold makes entry into the ranks of the employed more hard than it's ...